On Tuesday, November 30, the United Nations Security Council convened to discuss events in the Middle East, condemning Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and the trend of the Israeli military allowing them to be carried out. Yet despite this being condemned by the international community, Western media finds it of no interest to […]
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Heroic Palestinian Stabbing Op: «Israeli» Settler Injured in Al-Quds
December 8, 2021 By Staff, Agencies An “Israeli” settler was stabbed and wounded in a tense neighborhood in east al-Quds [Jerusalem] on Wednesday. A Palestinian female minor was later arrested inside a nearby school, “Israeli” police said. The “Israeli” woman was taken to the trauma unit of the nearby Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital, which said […]
‘Settler violence is part of Israel’s official policy,’ experts say — but ‘Washington Post’ buries that angle
Earlier this month, the human rights group B’Tselem issued an important report titled, “State Business: Israel’s misappropriation of land in the West Bank through settler violence” that said the Israeli government “fully supports and assists” the spike in settler violence. Israel is using the settlers to widen the “Jewish-only space” on Palestinian lands, a process […]
Israel activist calls for ‘weapons to protect Palestinians’ from settler violence
Left-wing Jewish Israeli activist, Haim Shadmi, asked the Knesset on Sunday to allow him to bear arms to protect Palestinians from Jewish settler violence which they experience on a daily basis, the Jerusalem Post reported. During the Knesset conference “Stop Settler Violence”, Shadmi was reported saying: “Give us the authority to bear arms,” while going […]
‘If I gave up Jerusalem for the UK, a settler would take my place’
On Wednesday 29 September, Jerusalemite Hana Alamleh was packing her bags for her journey back to Palestine after having stayed a year in the United Kingdom. The 24-year-old was awarded the Said Foundation scholarship to pursue her master’s degree in sociolinguistics at Essex University in the 2020/2021 academic year. For young Palestinians, leaving for Europe […]
‘It’s my land’: Beita farmers struggle to harvest olives near settler outpost
On the outskirts of the town of Beita, south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank, a young man in a grey hoodie crouches behind some trees, moving discreetly through the olive groves that cover the hilly terrain. To a passerby, Ammar Hamayel, 30, might look suspicious, like he’s doing something he’s not […]
Sheikh Jarrah residents refuse to pay rent to settler groups
Palestinian families facing eviction from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood today turned down an Israeli court’s offer to provide them ‘protected residence’ status, saying that if they pay rent to the settler organisation which claims the land on which their homes are built, their properties will not be demolished, a member of one […]
Spike in Israeli settler attacks serves Bennett government policy: Terrorize Palestinians and take more land
Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is rising rapidly this year, with more than 2 attacks a day on average, per the Israeli military– a far greater rate than a year ago. According to two Israeli human rights experts, the violent settlers are working with the cooperation of the army and the […]
Campaign to save Palestinian farmers from settler attacks
In 2020 there were 40 attacks on Palestinian farmers during the harvest October 15, 2021 at 4:44 pm READ: Gaza marks Palestine Heritage Day Show Comments Related Source Views: 0
B’Tselem: Palestinian teen kidnapped, tortured in settler attack
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem detailed the harrowing tale of a Palestinian teenager who was kidnapped and tortured by a group of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank this summer, in a report released last week. On August 17th, 15-year-old Tareq Zbeidi and five of his friends decided to go for a picnic […]
Bowing to pressure, Israeli bus companies remove ads deploring settler violence
An ad campaign by a group of Israeli human rights organizations – Breaking the Silence, Peace Now, Yesh Din, Warriors for Peace and others – demanding that the Defense Minister and Minister of Internal Security put an end to settler violence was removed from major Israeli bus companies Egged and Dan yesterday, October 4. The […]
An Israeli settler I want to live beside
DECOLONIZING ISRAEL, LIBERATING PALESTINE Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic Stateby Jeff Halper256 pp. Pluto Press, $19.95 Imagine, God forbid, that you and a friend are being rushed into a hospital emergency room by a life-support ambulance team. One of you is still living; the other died at the scene. The horrific […]
Protesting Settler Colonialism In The Neoliberal University
Above photo: “Holding Palestine” artistic protest. Steven Maybury. When Dutch art students wanted to show solidarity with Palestine, their school attempted to silence them. Students resisted with artistic forms of protest. During May’s uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in […]
Actions Demand NY Close Groups Backing Settler Genocide In Palestine
Above Photo: Marching through Brooklyn. (Jehad Dawoud) The whole world recoiled at the May media footage of racist Israeli settlers threatening to kill and beating up Palestinian people in order to steal their homes in the Sheik Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. The press, however, did not point out many of these arch-racist […]
Hollow justice of the settler state
A Palestinian woman stands in a bedroom ransacked by Israeli soldiers during a night raid on her home in Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus in January 2017. Ahmad Al-BazzActiveStills When Mohammed El-Kurd said that “living in Palestine is like having a policeman in your bed,” he wasn’t employing a rhetorical device or […]
Jews protesting Settler Provocations in Jerusalem
Thursday, 24 June 2021 [embedded content] Posted by Anon at 01:36 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Israel, Jews, Palestine, settlers, Zionists No comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Followers About Me Anon View my complete profile Blog Archive ▼ 2021 (165) ▼ June […]
Settler colonialism is a reproductive justice issue
Palestinian mothers with their vibrant history of resistance to the occupation should be placed at the forefront of the movement to liberate Palestine. It is, after all, Palestinian mothers who routinely endure and confront the brutality of Israeli oppression while raising, protecting and educating their children. We should affirm the vital contributions made by mothers […]
Israeli Settler To Steal Homes Of 6 Palestinian Families In Jerusalem Drives Armed Resistance
An Israel court ordered that 6 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem were required to leave their homes on May 2, but in order to facilitate an Israeli settler takeover of those homes the order has been delayed until Thursday, driving a violent reaction in the occupied West Bank. Israeli settler organisations seek to drive 26 […]
Abbas Statements are Complicit with Israeli Settler-Colonialism
April 22, 2021 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: Kremlin, via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramona Wadi Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of his collaboration with the international community over Palestine’s loss, and his complicity with […]